Plankton Generate a Cloudy Shield over the Antarctic

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Plankton Generate a Cloudy Shield over the Antarctic   After sunlight completes its eight-minute journey to Earth, white surfaces such as clouds send much of it bouncing right back into space. The whiter and brighter the cloud, the better it is at reflecting sunlight—and at keeping Earth cool. Now, a study published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics examines a surprising part of this process: how tiny aquatic creatures known as phytoplankton play a big role in whitening Earth's clouds.Scientists used satellites to monitor the skies above a large swath of the Southern Ocean for five years. They found that clouds forming south of 60 degrees latitude—that is, closer to Antarctica—tended to be significantly whiter than clouds farther north. Continued here

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3 Human Super Talents AI Will Not Replace   Will the new AI tools we’ve all heard so much about eliminate your job prospects before you even get started? Don’t worry too much. You can have a meaningful, exciting, and even creative career. But in order to succeed and stand out from your peers, you’ll need to learn how to leverage these new tools and cultivate these three skills that machines can’t replace. Continued here

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Ask an Expert: My Colleagues Can't Get My Name Right   How does one politely respond when being called by the wrong name? On many occasions, my boss’s boss has confused me with another colleague. Although we both have unusual names, our names are very different and do not sound similar at all. There was a particular occasion when my colleague’s promotion announcement included a highlight reel of my own accomplishments. While I have great respect for my colleague, I still struggle to convey my own unique identity.  Continued here

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4 Reasons You May Not Be Public Company CEO Material   The skills that got your business this far might not translate to the next step. Some things to consider. Continued here

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So, You Think You're Not Creative?   What jobs will not be replaced by AI by 2030? Those that rely on the core human traits most difficult for AI to replicate — creativity, intuition, curiosity, and imagination. Creativity is especially critical as it allows us to cope with unexpected changes and build the best pathways forward. Continued here

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Why Startup Leaders Fail: Micromanagement   True leadership is building a house without swinging a hammer. Continued here

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35 Best Memorial Day Sales on TVs, Smart Lights, and More   As with many other sales events, Memorial Day weekend deals can be confusing. It seems like every store on the internet is offering some sort of promotion. Not all that glitters is discounted, but we’re here to help. Below you’ll find the best Memorial Day deals and sales on reviewer-approved gadgets and gear. Be sure to check out our other Memorial Day sale stories for curated category highlights. We’ve got dedicated roundups for the best outdoor deals, best mattress deals, best tech deals, and best home and kitchen deals. Happy shopping! Continued here

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Skills-Based Hiring at Scale Is Hard. That's Why CEOs Need to Support It   How Delta and OneTen promoted frontline employees into 'middle skill' positions. Continued here

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The case for "co   Excerpted from Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory by Bernard E. Harcourt Copyright (c) 2023 Bernard E. Harcourt. Used by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.Cooperation generates that extra element—that additional part beyond the sum of the parts—that we might call “coöpower.” Coöpower derives from the strength of the values and principles at the heart of cooperation: participatory democracy, equity in the distribution of wealth, care for all the stakeholders, solidarity, sustainability, and concern for the working environment.  Continued here

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Delta Air Lines Just Got Some Fantastic News, and the Boring Reason Why Is Inspiring   "Uneventful, thanks. I slept the whole way." Continued here

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What an Old Chinese Story Can Teach You About Resilience   For entrepreneurs, the highs are high and the lows are low. Here's how to thrive through it all. Continued here

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Meet the Founder: KW Couples Therapy's Kiaundra Jackson   KW Couples Therapy's Kiaundra Jackson talks about roadblocks to access for Black founders, the importance of perseverance, and what it felt like to get a shoutout from Beyonc. Continued here

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This Machine Makes You Hallucinate   Last summer, in various cities in the UK, more than 40,000 people visited the Dreamachine, a large space designed to induce hallucinatory experiences with white stroboscopic light and electronic music. “We had guardians there to guide and relax people at the beginning through breathing exercises,” says Anil Seth, a neuroscientist at the University of Sussex and a collaborator on the project, which includes a team of artists, engineers, designers, and musicians. Twenty to 30 people were allowed into the room and asked to lay down and close their eyes. After the 30-minute session, participants would typically describe the experience with adjectives like vivid, kaleidoscopic, powerful, and magic. “Seeing the responses of participants when they come out the other side of the curtain and they’ve just had this experience was so rare and magical,” Seth says. “We’re really making something that is internal and transcendental and personal into a collective experience.”One of the aims of the Dreamachine project is to shine a light on something that Seth has investigated for more than a decade: the effect of stroboscopic lights on the brain. “It’s a phenomenon that’s still not understood,” he says. “The flickering light gives rise to really unexpected and powerful perceptual effects and conscious experiences that are kind of unrelated to what’s out there. It’s just white light yet people see colors and shapes.” This psychedelic effect might be key to understanding the neural basis of visual experience, because participants report having visual experiences even though their eyes are closed. “There’s something about experiencing the power of your own mind and brain to generate an experience that is really transformational,” Seth says. Continued here

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'Felt presence': Why we sometimes feel invisible others   It was 2015 and Luke Robertson was skiing across Antarctica alone. There was nothing to see but vast expanses of snow and ice. Two weeks into a planned 40-day unsupported journey to the South Pole, he was behind schedule, feeling exhausted and demoralised. Then he looked up and to his left he saw… green fields. And not just any green fields, but the fields of his family's farm in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. There too were the house and garden he grew up in. It was a sight that was both scary and comforting.When I talked to Robertson on All in the Mind on BBC radio he told me it was weird . But things were to get weirder still. His charging equipment wasn't working so he couldn't listen to the music he had with him. The only sound accompanying him was the squeak of his skis on the ice and the howling of the Antarctic wind. But for some reason the theme tune of The Flintstones was playing constantly in his head. Nothing so strange about that perhaps – we all experience this sensation of tunes that become ear worms – but then he saw characters from the cartoon series ahead of him, on the horizon. Continued here

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How to Text From Your PC Through Your Phone   Since Windows 11 made its debut in October 2021, we've seen a number of improvements and new features, the latest of which is the ability to send and receive text messages from the desktop.This is possible thanks to a Windows 11 tool called Phone Link, which has supported Android phones for some time. With some new functionality that now covers iPhones, you can manage messages on your mobile device no matter what smartphone model you have. Continued here

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This Sentence Perfectly Captures How UX Leaders Should Be Thinking About A.I.   3 ways A.I. will help your company do better customer research. Continued here

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Delivery drivers in India are struggling through a hot, unpredictable summer   It was noon, and the Delhi summer sun was beating down on Rajeev. The food delivery driver was drenched in sweat and visibly exhausted, but he couldn’t afford to take a break — he needed to complete as many orders as possible. To shield himself from the sun, he wore a long-sleeved T-shirt under his bright orange company uniform, and wrapped a gamchha — a soft cotton towel — around his head. He had never bought sunscreen, but did remember to pack a raincoat in the storage box of his electric bike, in case it suddenly rained.  Continued here

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'Succession' Ends How It Began   Talk about a ludicrously capacious feast. After the Roy siblings finally agreed to back Kendall (played by Jeremy Strong) as their leader in the series finale of Succession, they commemorated the call with “a meal fit for a king”: a vomit-colored (and likely vomit-flavored) smoothie that included, among other unappetizing ingredients, bread, raw eggs, Branston pickles, and spit. Kendall gamely drank until he couldn’t, and then had the rest poured over his head like a slimy crown.I felt as if I’d been gulping the meal down myself as I watched the episode—an equal parts hilarious, repulsive, and sensational end to one of the most enthralling series of our era. Sure, the eleventh-hour boardroom battle was to be expected for a show that has thrived off cutthroat corporate tactics, but the dramatic developments along the way kept me guessing—not only about who would end up leading Waystar Royco, the company Logan Roy (Brian Cox) left behind, but about who among these ruthless point-one-percenters could ever escape the vicious cycle instilled by the late patriarch. In the end, none of the Roy siblings won the throne Logan vacated. Shiv (Sarah Snook) schemed to stay close to power without guarantees of wielding any, forcing Kendall and Roman (Kieran Culkin) to exit the company. All three are left adrift, traumatized once again by the world in which they were raised, and the choices made by their late father—but perhaps more free. Continued here

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The Lenovo Yoga 9i Is a Stylish, Powerful 2-in-1 Laptop   If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDLenovo's latest Yoga 9i is everything a flagship laptop should be: powerful, sleek, and portable, with an excellent 2.8K OLED display. The latest iteration of the 9i even includes Bowers & Wilkins speakers in the rotating soundbar hinge for some truly impressive sound (for a laptop). Continued here

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Sex Workers Are Still Hot for Twitter Spaces   “I’ve done some Fear Factor shit in my life—a sweaty ass ain’t the worst,” a user named Hoochie Papa said in a recent Twitter Spaces discussion attended by a handful of OnlyFans creators, expressing his love of post-workout anilingus. From there, conversation flared with excitement, as topics zipped from craziest foods eaten (pig brain, alligator) to Spike TV (“That was my shit!”) to the domestic banality of Lifetime movies like Your Baby Is Mine and The Secret Sex Life of a Single Mom. “I could sit and watch The Notebook,” he continued, “but I can’t watch no Lifetime movie.” What you've likely heard about Twitter Spaces is only the half of it. Although it has been host to a botched presidential campaign launch and a fallen crypto founder’s farewell tour, its esoteric charms have taken hold in other corners of the platform. Since Twitter debuted the Clubhouse competitor in 2021, the audio chat feature, like Clubhouse itself, has lost a lot of the cultural cache it had back when Covid-19 forced people to find creative substitutes for connection without physically meeting up. Yet amid this quiet period in social audio—most experiments like Spotify Live and Reddit Talk have shuttered, and everyone’s horny for AI these days—one group, long at the forefront of critical shifts in technology and the way it’s utilized, has leveraged Spaces for information-swapping, community-building, and mundane enjoyment: sex workers. Continued here

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Do Measures of Effective Management Really Show Superior Results?   Ways to understand what parts of your process are truly helping the business. Continued here

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Research: The Flexibility Options Your On-Site Employees Want   Gallup surveyed more than 5,700 U.S. workers in industries such as manufacturing, transportation, health care, education, and service to understand which flexibility options their employers were offering and which flexibility options would entice them to switch jobs. The most commonly offered options (relaxed dress code, flexible start and end times, choice over which days they work per week) were not the ones that employees most valued (increased PTO, four-day workweek, remote or WFH options). Continued here

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Late-Night-Radio Talk-Show Host Tells All   Do I have rivals? Competitors? Certainly: the sports blatherers with their outer-borough accents, the medicine men and their elixirs, the partisan boosters who stir up primitive rage, the DJs peddling their caterwaulings. From one end of the dial to the other, clamor and cacophony. My mode is otherwise: seduction, consolation, the whisper, the voice that caresses and heals. The voice of a lover. And sometimes of a skeptic.The middle of the night is mine. From 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. I am sovereign here in my windowless cubicle. My desk with its scattered papers and corn-muffin crumbs, my electric coffee pot, my chair, my mic, the ancillary mic that connects me to the tech interior (and to Peter, the screener who weeds out the nuts and the cranks), the extra chair that is never used, the door that leads to my personal W.C., the time signal on the clock on the wall. Continued here

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Speak With Confidence: Four Fixes That Work   In this Nano Tool for Leaders, Wharton's Jonah Berger shares four tips for confident communication in the workplace.Nano Tools for Leaders®  — a collaboration between Wharton Executive Education and Wharton’s Center for Leadership and Change Management — are fast, effective tools that you can learn and start using in less than 15 minutes, with the potential to significantly impact your success. Continued here

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The 21 Best Memorial Day Tech Deals   It's nearing the hottest time of year, so why not trick out your home theater and stay indoors? Or, if you plan on venturing out, you can pick up some earbuds to keep tunes blasting on the go. Whatever your needs, there are plenty of sales going on this weekend and we've rounded up some of the best on all our favorite electronics.Update May 29, 2023: We've removed dead deals, added a few replacements, and updated pricing throughout. Continued here

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The biggest myths about emotions, debunked   In today’s world, people are more open than ever to discuss their emotions, largely due to the growth in self-help literature and efforts to destigmatize therapy. However, this openness has also resulted in certain misconceptions about emotions, which neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett aims to clarify.Contrary to the notion that emotions are inherently fixed in our brains from birth, Barrett contends that they are primarily based on past experiences and the brain’s predictions of future events. This means that emotions aren’t merely reactions thrust upon us, but something we actively participate in creating. Continued here

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Cynthia Ozick on the Link Between Beauty and Purity   “Late-Night-Radio Talk-Show Host Tells All” is a new story by Cynthia Ozick. To mark the story’s publication, Ozick and Oliver Munday, the associate creative director of the magazine, discussed the story over email. Their conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.Oliver Munday: Your story, “Late-Night-Radio Talk-Show Host Tells All,” is about an aging radio host named Nicky. It’s a beguiling and profound character study. What drew you to after-hours radio as a fictional setting? Continued here

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Surrogate activities and why we crave adventure in a comfortable world   Broud stalks the beast, spear gripped tight, his breathing slow and steady. From his cover in the bushes, he can see the beast’s huge teeth and coiled muscles. It will be a challenging hunt. It might be his last. Banishing fear from his mind, Broud leaps from his hiding place and into the air. With all his might, he thrusts his spear into the beast’s back. The beast gives out a deep, primal roar as its head snaps around with feral energy. Razor-sharp claws slice a gash across Broud’s thigh, but it isn’t deep, and Broud darts back to watch the life-blood leak out from his kill. The hunt is over.Fast forward 200,000 years, and here you are reading this article. You’re comfortable and warm and probably have a nice bed to climb into later. You have a grocery store near you that sells a vast variety of goods. You have antibiotics, refrigeration, and TVs. Never in the course of human history have humans had it so easy. Continued here

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Notes From a Cemetery   In moments of commemoration, private sorrow finds not just public acknowledgment but historical meaning.America has two national holidays that honor those who have served, Veterans Day and Memorial Day. The former is for the living; the latter is for the dead. How we remember, honor, and judge the dead was on my mind as I wrote Halcyon, a novel that imagines an alternate America in which a scientific breakthrough has allowed a few of those dead to again wander among us. What follows is an excerpt that foregrounds questions of national memory, in which the novel’s narrator, Martin Neumann, encounters the World War II hero and renowned lawyer Robert Ableson considering his military service and the symbolism of our national cemeteries. Halcyon is about the intersection of individual and national memory, which is what Memorial Day is about too. Continued here

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How to Make Meetings Shorter (for Real)   If you work a typical office job, even remotely, you probably spend more time than you’d like in meetings. Last year, a survey from the AI customer engagement company Dialpad found that 83 percent of 2,800 respondents said they spent four to 12 hours a week in meetings. If you’re a founder or executive, that time may ramp up to more than 20 hours.No one could blame you for being exhausted. Whether they’re virtual or in-person, meetings require focus and can be draining, especially for introverts who aren’t energized by interactions with coworkers.   Continued here